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James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality

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It was this style of generator that Wimshurst began tinkering with in his home workshop in the early 1880s. Twenty-nine years later, on the centenary of his birth , Nature again published a note calling him “among the best-known inventors of electrical machines of the last part of the nineteenth century.” Antônio Carlos M. centimeters.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. Terman stressed that KAIS should aim to “satisfy the needs of Korean industry and Korean industrial establishments for highly trained and innovative specialists, rather than to add to the world’s store of basic knowledge.” South Korea’s Founding Lab.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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is already up to his elbows in electronic parts, digging through stacks of dusty circuit boards. Ted Hoff is part of electronics industry legend. But the technical part of Hoff’s mind has no off-switch, and he quickly concluded that the engineers were going in the wrong direction. Ted) Hoff Jr. in Rochester, NY. San Jose, Calif.,

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